China has over taken the United States as the leading emitter of CO2

With China’s growth over the last few years (11% GDP this year) has pasted the US as the leading emitter of CO2. This has happened far quicker the past projections by the International Energy Agency (IEA) three years ago the IEA said China would pass the US by 2025.

China this year will emit 6,020 million tons of CO2 compared the United States 5,900 tons. This growth in CO2 from China will be greater then the total reductions in CO2 by the European Union, affectively wasting billions spent by the EU.

The scale of this problem for the EU is enormous:

“In the next eight years alone, the Chinese would install, as new, as much energy generating plant as currently exists today in all of the 25 countries of the expanded European Union- a total of 800 giga watts.

Ninety per cent of this would be coal-fired, that is, producing the most C02, and most of this, he said, would last for 50 to 60 years - "you can't shut down a power station after five or 10 years as that would be economic suicide". He said: If we can't influence China and India in their coming energy business decisions, we will be locked in, and we will have to live with the consequences for half a century or more.”